Remove Contaminated Soil from Residential Gardens & Re-Landscape Client: MTM Construction Consultant: WA Fairhurst and Partners Challenge: Advise on the removal of contaminated material from a residential area built on a former town gas site. Reinstate existing landscaping. Applied ...

A burst storage tank resulted in severe pollution beneath a building. Using EU70 and added nutrients the contractor was able to use insitu remediation techniques to very quickly reduce the contaminates to levels well below those required by the authorities. Additional benefits were the minimal disturbance to property and access and the ability to provide a complete solution. This could not ...

By designing a 70-foot deep barrier wall, Black & Veatch was able to cut off contaminant source areas from a creek near New Castle, Delaware. The groundwater treatment system that Black & Veatch designed prevents site contamination from reaching the underlying drinking water aquifer. The Standard Chlorine of Delaware Site is a 65 acre area including an abandoned chlorobenzene ...

Many situations can complicate a shoreline’s integrity. These can range from flooding, hurricanes and man-made disasters and can even include aquatic harvesting and human recreation. Making efforts to protect a shoreline from these intrusions helps protect economic and recreational interests. Shoreline remediation is an investment in the overall economic and natural ...

OVERVIEW A large consulting and contracting firm owns and operates several ex-situ Thermal Desorption Units (TDUs). Each single-load Thermal Desorption Unit has the capacity of desorbing 15 tons of soil per hour at a temperature of 400°F - 900°F. These Thermal Desorber Units have been designed to operate on both chlorinated and non-chlorinated RCRA, CERCLA, and private industry ...

From the beginning of World War II until the 1970s, the site that is now the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane, Indiana (NSWC-Crane) was the home of a major bomb manufacturing operation. Explosive compounds such as TNT, Royal Demolition Explosives (RDX) and Her Majesty’s Explosive (HMX) were handled loose and drifted through air vents. Often, the material settled on the roofs of buildings, ...

Petrox is widely used to remediate soil and ground water contaminated by fuels and chemicals leaking from underground storage tanks (USTs). In many cases the UST removal contractor will treat residual contamination in the excavation after the leaking UST is removed. The effects of Petrox aerobic bioremediation can be seen in the ground water down gradient of the ...

The soils washing installation now owned and operated by HBR was formerly used by Kinatex Heijmans Joint Venture to process contaminated soil at the Basford Gasworks site. The project was the first major land based application of soils washing technology in the UK with in excess of 150,000 tonnes of soil successfully processed. Treatability Phase In the autumn of 1996, LHJV were contracted by BG ...

GEA provided comprehensive site investigation, remediation design and remedial compliance services for the Sterling-Regal Hazardous Waste Site in Carlstadt, New Jersey. GEA prepared a remedial action workplan (RAW) for a large corporate printing company site in the New Jersey Meadowlands in accordance with NJDEPE requirements. The work also included:· soil ad groundwater ...

Cognition Land and Water Ltd, a UK based remediation specialist, has hired a portable XRF metals analyser to improve the speed of remediation work at a project in London’s Kentish Town. The project had a major impact on local residents so timescales were extremely tight but Cognition’s Charlie Jarvis says “It would not have been possible to meet the deadline without the use of ...

The 80 acre site, formerly a minerals processing facility, was operated primarily to recover lithium and other rare-earth minerals from ores. Raw ores were imported to the site for processing. During one phase of its operations, the facility also processed uranium ores for the government. The site was listed as by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a Comprehensive Environmental ...

Vibration instrumentation on hire from Ashtead Technology helped a firm of engineering contractors to ensure that remediation of contaminated land did not incur costly structural damage to nearby properties. Part 2A of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 aims to identify land affected by contamination that presents an unacceptable risk in its present state. If such land is identified, Part 2A ...

The technology is ready and, with state and federal tax credits waiting, the economics look better than ever: New Jersey, one of the first states to be industrialized, finds itself plagued with the contaminated aftermath of pre-EPA industries: soil contamination. From superfund sites to the gas station whose underground storage tank has been oozing for the last 20 years, every ...

In this article, Steven Holmes, from analytical services provider ALcontrol, explains how web-based software is helping to ramp up the speed of environmental analysis for remediation contractors such as Sanctus Limited. Background The development of brownfield sites can be more complicated and take longer than other types of building land. However, it is an attractive option ...

National Grid and Wales and West Utilities recently completed their first joint remediation project at the Aberaman Gasworks following the sale of the Wales and south west of England gas network in 2005. Here Scott Lewis from National Grid and Ashley Griffiths from Wales and West Utilities explain the challenges and processes. The project was undertaken using a stabilisation and solidification ...

Description: Industrial Site in Apeldoorn, Netherlands Consultant and Contractor: NTP Enschede Approach: Severe soil and shallow groundwater contamination by metals and chlorinated solvents (cVOCs) was detected at the site. A comprehensive site remediation plan was developed by NTP and Adventus Group to provide accelerated site clean-up, that included: • Installation of two ...

When an experienced environmental remediation company secured a contract to clean up a former manufactured gas plant in a New York community, the contractor realized the groundwater environmental remediation process would require a host of different technologies to address contaminated soil as well as ground and surface water. TIGG was called upon to provide a solution for treating the ...

First Michigan state-funded cleanup using electrical resistivity heating technology and a guaranteed project. Background The site is a former dry cleaner that had operated for more than 20 years. The dry cleaning operations left residual perchloroethylene (PCE) contamination in the soil and groundwater and a building was constructed on the site without ...

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